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W.Va. polls tighten, race takes back seat
Politico ^ | 10/19/08 | BEN SMITH

Posted on 10/19/2008 7:39:21 PM PDT by Hanna548

"He is black" was the first thing Kenny Perdue, the state's AFL-CIO president, said. {snip}

The president of the United Mine Workers, Cecil Roberts, spoke after Perdue in a parking lot set in the flat plateau below the remains of a strip-mined mountain.

"I'd rather have a black friend than a white enemy," he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; mccain; obama; race; wv2008
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Reading this article I couldn't help but ask, "Exactly who is it that is racist?" Perhaps I don't understand. Are we to introduce John McCain as a white man. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome white/irish man John McCain and Heinz 57 Sarah Palin. This is insane.

Btw, I am not sure McCain is Irish nor am I sure Sarah is Heinz 57, I just used those to make the point.

1 posted on 10/19/2008 7:39:21 PM PDT by Hanna548
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To: Hanna548
Keep Up The Good Fight:

For Liberty's Sake

2 posted on 10/19/2008 7:40:47 PM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh Is "The Passion" of Conservatism And Pretty Good At That Radio Thingy)
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To: writer33

I HATE politico.


3 posted on 10/19/2008 7:41:52 PM PDT by SMCC1
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"I'd rather have a black friend than a white enemy,"

Yeah @$$hole, Senator McCain spent five years in the Hanoi Hilton just waiting to be released so he could come after you. You are an un-American scumbag.

4 posted on 10/19/2008 7:42:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I'm just going to spread YOUR wealth around." - Barack HUSSEIN Obama a.k.a. Barry Soetoro)
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To: Hanna548

They seem to overlook the small fact that people in West VA just don’t like gun grabbing, pro abortion socialist liberals. No matter what color they are...


5 posted on 10/19/2008 7:42:36 PM PDT by KoRn (Barack Obama Must Be Stopped!!!)
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To: Hanna548

More MSM propaganda.

If Obama wins then the white rank & file union workers will be replaced by ACORN people and illegal aliens from SEIU illegal alien union which is closely connected to ACORN.

Cecil or whatever his name is running the union there in WV will be kicked to the curb so fast by Obama and ACORN/SEIU his head will spin. That boy will be out of job faster than he can say “Robert Byrd.”

Everybody - Volunteer & Donate.

Make sure we are all at local McCain HQ helping out with GOTV the weekend before the election. If you are retired - volunteer now. Ignore the polls.


6 posted on 10/19/2008 7:43:57 PM PDT by Frantzie
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To: Hanna548
Is this suppose to work? Saying things like, “People think you're a bunch of rednecks who won't vote for a black man.”
???

Wouldn't that just piss people off, because they are being pressured into voting for Obama or else they will be what they are supposedly being called?

Stupid strategy, and I think it will back fire.

7 posted on 10/19/2008 7:44:08 PM PDT by snarkytart
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“I’d rather have a black friend than a white enemy” is code for “I prefer a politician friend who will shovel some graft my way”.


8 posted on 10/19/2008 7:45:43 PM PDT by Azzurri
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To: Azzurri

Typical white union thug.


9 posted on 10/19/2008 7:46:32 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("I'm just going to spread YOUR wealth around." - Barack HUSSEIN Obama a.k.a. Barry Soetoro)
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To: SMCC1

That’s understandable.


10 posted on 10/19/2008 7:49:42 PM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh Is "The Passion" of Conservatism And Pretty Good At That Radio Thingy)
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...I'd rather have a black friend than a white enemy," he said.

Well isn't that lucky for all the black people? /s This Dem is trying to tell everyone how tolerant and accepting he is of "the coloreds," I guess. That's about as condescending a comment as I've heard today. Jerk.

11 posted on 10/19/2008 7:49:58 PM PDT by TXBlair (On a scale of one to ten, The One is a Zero.)
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“Casey, the Democratic state chairman, alleges...

“John McCain is confident that ignorant, redneck racists are not going to vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama is black,” said Casey.”


Disgusting.


12 posted on 10/19/2008 7:50:22 PM PDT by Canedawg (Over? OVER? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!)
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Kenny Perdue and the AFL-CIO hasn’t run off enough companies and jobs so now he wants to ruin healthcare too.

I don’t think I want to be lectured by a stupid job killer.

What the hell would Kenny do if he wasn’t sitting on his *ss bad mouthing people who risk their savings to open a business and to have Kenny & the UNION try to run it.

Hey, Kenny, when YOU provide ONE JOB then you can lecture the rest of us!

******

Kenny Perdue

“Within Our Reach: Health Care for All”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sWq6KLsKgA

******

Opening the rally, Kenny Perdue, president of the West Virginia AFL-CIO, said, “You ought to be mad as hell.

“What are we leaving for our kids and our grandchildren? Thanks to George Bush, not a damn thing.

“He has brought the country to a pre-Depression mode. And we are in deep trouble around the world. We’re going to have to work a lot longer to make it to retirement.”

Perdue criticized John McCain’s plans to privatize Social Security and tax health care for most working people.

“McCain is a mirror image of George Bush. If you want to leave something for your kids and grandkids, there is only one person you can vote for in this election.”

http://tinyurl.com/6qwvca


13 posted on 10/19/2008 7:55:44 PM PDT by kcvl
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Kenny Perdue:"West Virginia's coal industry and its miners are facing a growing barrage of lawsuits and legal maneuvers from activist environmental groups and advocates who seem to have a singular mission of destroying coal mining in our state. Even more insidious, these attacks and legal battles are being waged almost exclusively here in and against West Virginia."

Kenny obviously isn't very smart. He is SUPPORTING the candidate that is the environmentalist and supported by those left wing nutjobs! DUH!

14 posted on 10/19/2008 7:59:28 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Hanna548

The Army Times poll. Very interesting.

http://www.militarytimes.com/static/projects/pages/081003_ep_2pp.pdf


15 posted on 10/19/2008 8:00:31 PM PDT by CanaGuy (Go Harper!)
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To: Hanna548

WVa unions, prepare yourselves for union card checks.

Welcome to the workforce, b*tch.

Comparison chart on business.

0 supports card check. Tell that to your union guys.

http://www.sbecouncil.org/uploads/Candidate%20Side%20by%20Side%20Aug%2025%20final%5b1%5d.pdf


16 posted on 10/19/2008 8:06:42 PM PDT by combat_boots (From the Bush Derangement Syndrome(TM) to the 0bama Worship Cult in which NOTHING matters. USSKKKA)
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“He is black” was the first thing Kenny Perdue, the state’s AFL-CIO president, said”

What he SHOULD have said was he was a Muslim connected socialist liar who has friends among the communist left-wingers who hate America.


17 posted on 10/19/2008 8:08:03 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: Frantzie

hey ole cecil doesnt care about nothing but his union of health workers/gov employees/and whoever and a few coalminers,but he can scratch the miners if obama gets elected,he aint the brightest light in the mine,Pres Bush was the best friend WV miners ever had,but the umwa wont admit it,socialism is on the far right of most of them.


18 posted on 10/19/2008 8:12:48 PM PDT by coalman (type to slow to be relevant,but I try)
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To: coalman

Sadly, we are on the precipice of socialism. Some of my neighbors are union members and are voting the way the union tells them to. Sheep to the slaughter and they don’t even realize it. Hopefully we canpull this one back from the edge.


19 posted on 10/19/2008 8:18:33 PM PDT by WVNight (We havn't played Cowboys and Muslims yet....)
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To: Hanna548

If McCain can’t even win VW, its over. That being said, I don’t believe Obama has a chance in Hell there—this is just more MSM propaganda.


20 posted on 10/19/2008 8:26:41 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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